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included. Imported plaice, as from Denmark, are also omitted here. Altona is the chief 

 market for these, and in 1903, the quantities of plaice imported there or sent from other 

 parts of Germany amounted to over 150,000 kg. In the statistics for Altona, the dab 

 {P. lùnanda) is included with the plaice. In the statistics for Geestemiinde (since 1895) 

 and Bremerhaven (since 1899), two classes of plaice are distinguished, large and medium 

 together and small. The actual limits between these are not stated, but it is of some 

 interest to show how the proportions of these classes have varied relatively to one another 

 (Table VIII). These proportions are calculated from the weight not the numbers of plaice. 



Plaice from Iceland and the Fœroe Isles are not separately distinguished in the statis- 

 tics, nor those taken in the Skager Rak and Kattegat. The actual quantities taken from 

 the North Sea by the German fishermen are therefore slightly smaller than these figures 

 indicate. 



Holland: The quantities given are in part estimates (Parti, p.72 ). The figures in 

 this table refer only to the plaice landed from the North Sea. In addition to these, con- 

 siderable quantities have of recent years been brought from Iceland and the Faeroes by 

 the steam trawlers, as shown in the following table. 



Table IX. Quantity of plaice landed in HoUand from Iceland and the Faeroe-Isles, 



in kilograms 



Iceland 



1901 

 1902 

 1903 



37,300 

 16,700 

 24,700 



Fseroes 



25 

 750 



Total 



37,300 

 16,725 

 25,450 



These quantities from Iceland and the Faeroes represent the fish sold at the state 

 auction in Ijmuiden. 



The Dutch official statistics divide the plaice landed into three sorts, large, medium 

 and small. In 1903, a fourth division for smaller plaice is given in the statistics for 

 Ijmuiden. The proportions of these different groups are shown in the following table, the 

 fourth division for 1903 being taken with the third. 



Table X. Proportions of large, medium and small plaice landed at Ymmden and sold at the 



state auction. 



1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



Large 



5 °/o 

 4 - 



4 

 4 

 I 

 07 

 I 

 I 

 2 



Medium 



9 °/o 



9 - 



8 - 



5 - 



4 - 



3 - 



4 - 

 3 - 



Small 



95 % 



87 - 



87 - 



88 - 



94 - 



95 - 



96 - 



95 - 



95 - 



The proportions for 1896 represent only the quantities landed during the last six 

 months of the year. The proportions are calculated from the weights not the numbers. 



